819 Slaughtering the Golden Crow (1/2)
At the Golden Crow.
Two ten-foot golden crows were flanking the door. Many brawny guards stood at the entrance. The building was hundreds of meters tall which made this top medicine hall look magnificent.
Many senior members were gathering on the top floor.
The black robed Alchemy Envoy was sitting in a high position while he drank tea. The Master and the elders of the Golden Crow were reporting to him. The auction went well and the Golden Crow made a lot of Spirit Stones this time.
The Master of the Golden Crow smiled and said, ”Together with the hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones the Gu family gave us, we've made a net profit of over four hundred thousand this time.”
Old Ding hesitated and said, ”Alchemy Envoy, I'm still a bit worried… It seems that Exalted Immortal Chen is not someone to be trifled with. Did we make a wrong decision?”
”He's just a Chinese. How can he be called Exalted Immortal? Old Ding, you fool!” the Deputy Master yelled.
”Old Lord Gu is known for his array formations and fire control. Even if he's a real Connate Cultivator, he's no match for the old man. Besides, the Golden Crow is one of the top medicine halls in the Beihan Region. It doesn't matter if we offend him,” the Alchemy Envoy said.
The Golden Crow might seem weak in front of the royal family and the six Grotto-heavens, but they were superior when facing normal cultivators.
While all the senior members were smiling.
”Boom!”
A thunderous sound came from the lower floors, followed by screams and cries.
”What's going on?”
Everyone was startled. When they were about to send someone down to check, the banging sound went from the first floor to the top floor in a blink.
”Boom.”
A young man kicked open a door that had been reinforced with bronze and talisman inscriptions. He walked in with a hunky man in tow, who was the Chief of the Golden Crow guards, a peak-stage Ethereal Enlightenment Cultivator. Chen Fan carried him like a dead dog, then he threw him down from the top floor.
”Exalted Immortal Chen?”
”That kid?”
”You're still alive?”
Everyone reacted differently.
The senior members looked as if they had seen a ghost. Didn't the Ancestral Patriarch of the Gu family catch Chen Fan? Why was he in the Golden Crow? Besides, the building shook every time he took a step and his body was surrounded by a powerful energy. He was definitely not a mortal.
”Why? Are you surprised the Gu family didn't kill me?” Chen Fan smiled as he walked.
One of the senior members got up and tried to explain, ”It's all a misunderstanding, my friend…”
Chen Fan flicked his fingers and shot out a ray of white light, which penetrated that member's head straight between the eyebrows, killing him on the spot.
”Deputy Master?”
Everyone was enraged.
The Master of the Golden Crow said with a cold voice, ”The Golden Crow is a powerful Chamber of Commerce in the Beihan Region. We have many Connate servants and five Golden Crow Envoys. Our Chief Master is a Perfected Cultivator as well. Do you really want to be our enemy?”
”Shut up!”
Chen Fan flipped his hand and crushed the Master of the Golden Crow.
This superior man—who was close to the leaders of the cultivation families in Zhuyan City—didn't even last one second.
'”Sthh.”
Even Old Ding was terrified.
The Master of the Golden Crow was a Divine Sea Cultivator, considered to be one of the top hundred cultivators in Zhuyan City. Still, Chen Fan killed him as easily as slaughtering a chicken, which was completely frightening.
There was one person in the hall who wasn't afraid. He was thrilled instead.
”I can't believe you're a Connate Overlord. I clearly misjudged you before.”
The Alchemy Envoy was still sitting as he spoke; his eyes brightened. ”You were indeed the one who made the Heavenly Essence Pills, right? So, are you an Alchemy Master?”
Everyone was startled.
It was already astonishing to find such a young Chinese Connate Cultivator, but an Alchemy Master?
Alchemy Masters were super-grade Alchemists who could make superior-grade Spirit Pills and Quasi-Treasure Pills! Every one of them was an expert in the field of alchemy and a Connate Overlord. That was why they could control fire in a perfect manner.
All the Alchemy Masters would be recruited by those top sects and families, and their status was as high as one enjoyed by a Golden Core Perfected Cultivator.
Was this young man truly an Alchemy Master?
Old Ding was dumbfounded. He had only been guessing, never thinking that it would be true.
”Yes, so what?”
Chen Fan kept walking expressionlessly.
”If you're really an Alchemy Master, then what we did before was only a misunderstanding. Master Zhu deserved to die since he colluded with the Gu family and offended an Alchemy Master. You won't be held accountable for killing him. Also, we'll offer you a hundred thousand Spirit Stones in compensation and as an apology.”
The Alchemy Envoy continued in earnest, ”You may not know me. I'm one of the Golden Crow Envoys, the Alchemy Envoy of the Golden Crow. I'm in charge of all the alchemy matters. Young masters like you are people we've been looking for. If you're willing to join the Golden Crow, we can even offer you the Golden Crow Cultivation Arts…”
As he spoke…